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Boxing Life Stories

Season 3: #4 Richard Slone

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Fight artist Richard Slone talks about his decorated career at the easel and at the fights. Richard originally went to the US to box and wound up living with heavyweight legend Joe Frazier in Philadelphia. Several years later, he was at the Kronk in Detroit with Emanuel Steward, becoming a fixture in the gym and in the corner of some of the sport's biggest names. But he's most famous for his artwork, for giving colour to the promotion of some of the sport's biggest fights, including it's biggest – Mayweather-Pacquiao – and it's allowed him to paint for high profile clients from Denzel Washington to Madonna and Donald Trump to Eminem. Please make enquiries about purchasing Richard's art to: sloneartuk@gmail.com Boxing Life Stories is now on Patreon. You can get access to research, unseen photographs from Boxing Life Stories, go behind the scenes of the podcast with Tris Dixon and even get some episodes early. You can help support us through another 100 episodes and help us to grow by visiting www.patreon.com/trisdixon Boxing Life Stories is bought to you by HANSON LEE who were voted “The UK's Best Specialist Insurance-Sector Recruitment Firm for 2020” in the Corporate Excellence Awards. ‘Not only do we find the best people, we’ll help you retain them.' Discover more at HansonLee.com’ AND DELCO SAFETY COMPLIANCE, who are a leading provider of professional fire, asbestos, and safety services to businesses nationwide. They offer one expert point of contact for all of your fire, health and safety compliance needs. Find out more at www.delcosafety.co.uk  Follow Tris on twitter @trisdixon and instagram @trisdixon @boxing_life_stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I think if anything I get sentimentally attached to the time when it was done so so for example

0:37.3

Louis Centuilla I remember painting that in the Poconos, like after trading sessions and before dinner with the team, you know, I paint for a little bit and Emmanuel coming every day and say, oh, this thing's looking great and it was just that

0:55.4

that piece to me takes me back to a place in time and memories and so it's just the fact of when and where it was done I think that might be the

1:07.0

most meaningful piece to me because I was surrounded by nothing but but friends and

1:10.6

and it was just a big thing. I knew the gym was struggling, the Frazier gym. I said

1:18.8

maybe we can make like a crunk slash Frazier gym and keep this thing going and you know Joe was just against the idea

1:26.0

Emanuel was for it and I was kind of stuck in the middle and Joe said now now I've taught

1:31.6

you how to fight you're gonna be like everybody else and leave me, aren't you?

1:35.0

M&M has a piece, Bruno Mars, Travis Tritt, who's a big country Western singer over here he collects. I mean there's

1:46.5

off the top of my head. Donald Trump got a piece when it was his birthday party and Joe Frazier had to buy him a gift.

1:56.7

So Joe said, hey, you know, can you do a painting for him?

2:00.5

So that's how that's how the piece got in Trump's hand and I think Madonna has a piece.

2:08.5

Denza Washington.

2:12.1

It's it's tough to say. My typical answer is, you know, when people say how long do they take you to paint that I say 46 years because that's how long it took me to learn my skills.

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